Good butchers in North London for steak

[jnm23]

I've been reading the various threads on cooking steak here

I think I've got the technique down but the raw material is letting me down
I have been using jamie Oliver Sainsbury steak but I cooked a sirloin on Monday and it was very disappoiting

So - does anyone know of a good butcher in North London, ideally reasonably close(ish) to Barnet / Whetstone / Finchley

I tried google but it's pretty useless; it came up with 2 local butchers which have closed down!

cheers

[spikeyhead]

Go for a hoon, just outside Dunstable, you'll be able to see next months offerings being fattened up too

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.886771...

[prand]

Not sure if Smithfield Market counts as North London, but I've had some cracking meat from teh sellers there.

[Henry Hawthorne]

Didn't even think Sainsbury's sold Jamie Oliver steaks anymore.

[Cactussed]

prand said:

Not sure if Smithfield Market counts as North London, but I've had some cracking meat from teh sellers there.

What's the deal with Smithfield? Can you turn up early on a Saturday and buy meat wholesale?

[sleep envy]

jnm23 said:

So - does anyone know of a good butcher in North London, ideally reasonably close(ish) to Barnet / Whetstone / Finchley

there's grahams on the junction of East End Road and Ossulton Way in east finchley or a little further aways is Bifulco in Cricklewood

I rate both very highly

[sleep envy]

Cactussed said:

prand said:

Not sure if Smithfield Market counts as North London, but I've had some cracking meat from teh sellers there.

What's the deal with Smithfield? Can you turn up early on a Saturday and buy meat wholesale?

not for much longer, it gets demolished soon

Borough is good too and it runs Thurs , Fri and Sat

[jnm23]

sleep envy said:

jnm23 said:

So - does anyone know of a good butcher in North London, ideally reasonably close(ish) to Barnet / Whetstone / Finchley

there's grahams on the junction of East End Road and Ossulton Way in east finchley or a little further aways is Bifulco in Cricklewood

I rate both very highly

cheers sleep envy!
about 5 mins walk from where I grew up, will have to pay the folks a visit!

[sleep envy]

no probs - I recommend their sausages!